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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TerminusDB vs. Tibero vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

terminusdb.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

IBM

Microsoft

DataChemist Ltd.

TmaxSoft

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2014

1989

2018

2003

2011

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

6, April 2015

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Graph Partitioning

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Journaling Streams

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

planned for next version

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

Based on Windows Authentication

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